Misty (and Des)

Des Toward has been involved with SARDA for many years and Misty is his third graded dog. Misty became initially graded in January 2006 and will hopefully become a fully graded search dog in early 2008. Des say "Everyone thinks that it would be easy to train another dog but Misty has probably been my biggest challenge, every dog is different. These are the first dogs Paul and Lee have trained and they have done tremendously well to get their dogs up to this standard in such a short length of time. My main advantage is that I know how to search with a dog where they have had to learn this skill from scratch."

Search dogs are trained to work in a wide range of conditions.